HONOR CODE PLEDGE: ______________________________ BLOCK: _____ DATE: __________________
ANTEBELLUM AMERICA TEST
Write the letter of the most correct answer in the blank to the left of each question or statement.
THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE:
Missouri enters the Union as a
slave state.
Maine enters the Union as a free
state.
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_____1. Which of the following statements
completes the description of the Missouri
Compromise?
A. popular sovereignty would
determine the slavery issue in the
rest of the Louisiana Territory.
B. No slavery would be allowed in the
Louisiana Territory at all.
C. No slavery would be allowed north
of 36° 30’ N latititude.
D. slavery would be allowed in every
part of the West.
_____2. Which of the following were
supported by pro-slavery Southerners in the
years leading up to the Civil War?
A. The Wilmot Proviso
B. The Free Soil Party
C. The Republican Party
D. The Fugitive Slave Law
_____3. The Free Soil Party believed –
A. Western land should be sold cheap
or given away for free.
B. slavery should be banned in the
South.
C. popular sovereignty should be used
to determine the future of slavery in
the West.
D. slavery should be forbidden in all
Western Territories.
THE COMPROMISE OF 1850:
California entered the Union as a free
state.
The slave trade was banned in
Washington, D.C.
Texas gave up land on its Western
border to create new territories in
exchange for money from the US
government.
New Mexico and Utah territories were
create.
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_____4. Which of the following statements
completes the Compromise of 1850:
A. Slavery was banned in the Oregon
Country.
B. The Fugitive Slave Law would be
more strictly enforced.
C. Texas would be divided into four
slave states.
D. Immigration from China would be
banned.
_____5. Allowing the settlers in a given
territory to decide for themselves whether
slavery would be legal or illegal was known as
–
A. gradualism
B. popular sovereignty
C. judicial review
D. the Freeport Doctrine
MATCHING. Slave Revolts in US History.
A. The Stono Rebellion
B. Gabriel’s Revolt
C. Denmark Vesey’s Plot
D. Nat Turner’s Rebellion
E. Harper’s Ferry
_____6. He was a free black – and a minister –
from Charleston, South Carolina who organized
a revolt against slavery in 1822. The plot was
uncovered, and dozens were executed. The
leader of the revolt was executed, and his
Church was destroyed.
_____7. He planned a slave revolt in Richmond,
Virginia in the year 1800. His goal was to hold
the Governor of Virginia hostage, and to
negotiate to free slaves. Before the plan was
put into action, however, it was discovered.
Dozens of conspirators were put to death.
_____8. He led a violent uprising in Virginia in
1831, which resulted in the bloodiest slave
revolt in all American history. For close to a
month, he hid out from the law, leaving all
Virginians fearful. Over fifty whites were killed
in Southampton County. He was later captured,
hanged, and then skinned.
_____9. In 1739, a group of South Carolina
enslaved men led by “Jemmy” attempted to
escape to Spanish-controlled Florida using
violent force. Dozens died in the failed effort.
_____10. John Brown organized an attack on
an arsenal in Virginia during this uprising. He
hope to distribute weapons to slaves and fight a
guerrilla war to liberate all slaves. Instead, he
was captured by the US Army, tried for treason,
and executed.
_____11. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
A. Harriet Tubman
B. Lyman Beecher
C. Harriet Beecher Stowe
D. Louisa May Alcott
_____12. This Congressional Act created two
new territories in the Louisiana Territory
region. Stephen F. Douglas sponsored the bill.
Both territories would determine the issue of
slavery by popular sovereignty.
A. The Compromise of 1850
B. The Missouri Compromise
C. The Kansas-Nebraska Act
D. The Oregon Treaty
_____13. Which two groups were fighting
against one another during “Bleeding Kansas?”
A. Americans and Englishmen.
B. Native Americans and Jayhawkers.
C. Abolitionists and Pro-Slavery men.
D. Kansans and Nebraskans.
_____14. Which well-known abolitionist and
his sons murdered a group of pro-slavery men
with broadswords at Pottawatomie Creek?
A. William Lloyd Garrison
B. Elijah Lovejoy
C. Dred Scot
D. Frederick Douglass
E. John Brown
_____15. Which abolitionist Senator from
Massachusetts was beaten with a cane by
Preston Brooks after delivering an anti-slavery
speech titled “The Crime Against Kansas”
A. Henry Clay
B. John C. Calhoun
C. Daniel Webster
D. Charles Sumner
_____16. What free-soil party was established
in 1854 and was determined to prevent the
spread of slavery into the Western territories?
A. The Know Nothing Party
B. The Republican Party
C. The Whig Party
D. The Constitutional Union Party
A SUPREME COURT VERDICT IN 1857:
“It is too clear for dispute, that the enslaved
African race were not intended to be
included, and formed no part of the people
who framed and adopted it….The framers of
the Constitution believed that blacks had no
rights which the white man was bound to
respect; and that the Negro might justly and
lawfully be reduced to slavery for his
benefit. He was bought and sold and
treated as an ordinary article of merchandise
and traffic, whenever profit could be made
by it.”
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Chief Justice Roger Taney, 1857
_____17. What Supreme Court case was
decided by the verdict above, which confirmed
that slaves were property, and could be moved
to any part of the United States legally – the
South, the West, and even the North –
A. Marbury V. Maryland
B. Dred Scot V. Sandford
C. McCullough V. Maryland
D. Gibbons V. Ogden
_____18. During the Lincoln-Douglas debates,
the Abraham Lincoln argued in favor of –
A. popular sovereignty
B. the American Colonization Society
C. the Supreme Court’s verdict in the
Dred Scot case.
D. banning slavery in all of the Western
Territories.
_____19. Which of the following statements
best summarizes Southerners’ “State’s Rights”
argument?
A. Laws made by the Congress are the
supreme law of the land.
B. No amendments to the Constitution
can be allowed in the future.
C. The tariff should be high to protect
American factories and industries.
D. States had the right to reject federal
laws they called unconstitutional.
MATCHING. Strategies for ending slavery in
America during the 19th Century.
A. Gradualism
B. Compensated Emancipation
C. The American Colonization Society
D. Underground Railroad
E. Abolitionism
F. Violent Revolts
_____20. Gabriel of Richmond, Jemmy of
Charleston, Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, and
John Brown all led these in an effort to fight
against slaveholders.
_____21. This strategy was used to end slavery
in the North, starting around the year 1800.
States insisted that slavery must end by a
certain year. Generally, women would be
emancipated at the age of 18; men would have
to wait until they turned 21 years old.
_____22. Freed African-American slaves would
be shipped abroad – to West Africa, the
Caribbean, or Central America – in order to
grant them their freedom – and remove them
from American society.
_____23. Advocates of this method demanded
an immediate end to slavery - without warning
and without compensation. Frederick Douglas
and William Lloyd Garrison were the most
famous advocates of this method of ending
slavery.
_____24. Harriet Tubman led enslaved people
to freedom by following this network of safe
houses and hiding places.
_____25. Paying Southern slaveholders in order
to emancipate their slaves; this was a favorite
strategy of Abraham Lincoln during the Civil
War.
_____26. Which candidate won the
Presidential Election of 1860?
A. John Bell
B. John Breckenridge
C. Abraham Lincoln
D. Stephen F. Douglas
MATCHING. Reformers and reform movements
of the 19th Century.
_____27. Which state almost immediately
seceded from the Union upon hearing that
Abraham Lincoln had been elected President?
They were the first state to leave the Union –
A. North Carolina
B. Virginia
C. South Carolina
D. Kentucky
C. Horace Mann
A. Elijah Lovejoy
B. Dorothea Dix
D. Susan B. Anthony
E. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
F. David Walker
G. Carry Nation
_____28. Withdrawal from the United States
of America by a state is called –
A. segregation
B. cession
C. serendipity
D. secession
_____29. Which of the following cities would
be the least likely destination for a traveler on
the Underground Railroad?
A. Toronto, Ontario – Canada
B. A Quaker Meeting House,
in Pennsylvania
C. Columbus, Ohio
D. Lynchburg, Virginia
_____30. The first shots of the Civil War were
fired at –
A. Manassas Junction, Virginia
B. The Battle of Antietam
C. Fort Sumter
D. Lexington and Concord
_____31. She was a violent supporter of the
Temperance Movement, known for smashing
bottles of alcohol with a battle hatchet.
_____32. She was an advocate for the reform
of mental health institutions; she was outraged
that mentally ill patients were thrown in jail
_____33. She was the author of the Declaration
of Sentiments and the organizer of the Seneca
Falls Convention who demanded woman’s
suffrage.
_____34. This abolitionist newspaper editor
was murdered in Alton, IL in 1837.
_____35. She was once arrested for casting a
ballot in a New York election; however she
never lived to see women vote in national
elections.
_____36. In his Appeal to enslaved people, he
claimed that violence – even murder – of
slaveholding masters was justified because
slavery was such an evil, wretched institution.
_____37. He founded the common school
movement in order to educate students as to
how to participate in a democratic republic.
MATCHING. Social Movements in US History.
A. Temperance
B. Woman’s Suffrage
_____43. At this meeting in upstate New York,
women demanded the right to vote for the first
time. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote the
Declaration of Sentiments, and in the
document, she demanded that women be
granted suffrage rights.
C. Abolitionism
D. Seneca Falls Convention
E. Nativism
F. States’ Rights
G. Popular Sovereignty
H. Free Soil
_____38. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B.
Anthony, and many others demanded that
women should have the right to vote in national
elections. They were in favor of this.
_____39. Allowing the settlers of western
territories to determine for themselves whether
or not to allow slavery is referred to by this
term. Senator Stephen F. Douglas was the
strongest advocate for this.
_____40. Parties which were strongly opposed
to allowing slavery in any of the Western
Territories were known as this kind of a party.
The Republicans of the 1850s are an example of
this kind of a political party.
_____41. This is defined as “hostility towards
foreigners.” Irish and Chinese immigrants
suffered as a result during the 1840s.
_____42. Opposition to the use of alcohol
because of the damage it causes to society is
the core belief of reformers for this.
_____44. The belief that states had the right to
nullify national laws – or to simply secede from
the United States for that matter – are both
beliefs within this political philosophy.
_____45. People like William Lloyd Garrison
and Frederick Douglas who demanded an
immediate end to slavery without any
compensation were advocates of this reform.
ESSAY CHOICES. Answer one of the following essays in the space provided below.
1. Explain how the United States government changed its views on slavery in the West between 1820
and 1858. How did the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and
the Dred Scot Supreme Court decision each attempt to resolve the debate over slavery? How did the
Lincoln-Douglas debates illustrate a divide in the North over the issue of slavery?
2. Many methods were attempted in order to end slavery, including abolitionism, gradual
emancipation, compensated emancipation, colonization, and even violent revolutions. Evaluate how
effective each method was at ending slavery? Which method offered the United States the most
promising chance to end the division over slavery without resorting to bloodshed and violence?
3. Describe the role that women played in advocating for social reforms during the 19th Century.
Identify at least three (3) social reform movements which women participated in and describe how
effective the reform campaigns were. Then, describe the contributions of at least four (4) different
women to the various movements. Provide as many specific details in your answer as possible.
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